Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1928, Page 21

ORAFTLAW URGED| * BY LEGON CHF McNutt Is Speaker at A. F. L. Convention—Green Opens Meeting. Br the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, La., November 20.| ~—A proposal to abolish the office of | treasurer by adding the duties of that! office to the secretaryship and an ad- | dress by Paul V. McNutt, commander of the American Legion, on “Labor and | the Union” claimed interest of dele- gates attending today's meeting of the | annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. In explaining the proposed universal draft law sponsored ,by the Legion. Comdr. McNutt strongly emphasized the want of universal draft legislation as “the one hole in our scheme of na- | tional defense.”. Comdr. McNutt as-| serted that under the present national defense measures, the United States would be very much in the same po- sition in event of war as was the case | in 1017, Explains Universal Draft. | “The universal draft enunciates in | brief form the principles that profit- | eering would be impossible and that | every one would be subject to service | in accordance with his ability and the needs of the Government,” the Legion | leader said. “Universal draft would plug the loop- holes of the draft dodgers.” Daniel Tobin of Indianapolis, who resigned recently as treasurer of the federation, announced that the pro- posal to abolish the treasurer's office | had been recommended in his annual | report. The fact that the president, secretary and treasurer must counter- sign checks is frequently a cause of great delay and trouble in case the three officers reside in widely separated cities, he sai | Tobin advocates the creation of the office of an additional vice president ‘o fill the vacancy on the exscutive council resulting from the abolition of the treas- urer’s office. | Tobin derlared the federation had #300.000.43 balance on hand on August | 21, 1928, which he said is now drawing | the maximum interest rate for sums on €eposit. Tobin's recommendation that the federation be authorized to pur- chase high-grade securities in order to | cbtain a larger return from the surnlus funds has been referred to committes for later action. Green Opens Meeting. Organized labor must turn its atten- tion to adjustments to modern condi- tions, William Green, president of the | American Federation of Labor, declared | yesterday in his opening address at the | convention. | | pounds of cellulose. It was placed in an | | airtight metal vessel with water and Jean Esic Bryan, 15-vea Takoma Park, Md. The lookout stated that she had been seen Saturday night FROM CELLU Supply, German By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., November 20.— The making of synthetic coal, to all appearances the equal of natural coal, out of cellulose, was described to the international conference on bituminous coal at Carnegie Institutzc of Tech- nology today by Friedrich Bergius, Ger- man chemist. | Cellulose is a chemical obtained from wood, cornstalk and various plants and is used as an element of many com- | mercial products from silken stockings | to auto lacquers and gunpowder. Bergius made artificial coal in minute quantities several years ago, but only during the last year, he said today, has he made it in sufficient quantities | to demonstrate that it is virtually real coal. Process Explained. | | | time he converted about 11| This 11| thoroughly mixed. High pressure was produced in the vessel. The contents | were heated to 340 degrees centigrads 2| by standing the container in molten | lead. After 24 hours of this scaled | cooking, the heat was shut off, gas that | allowed to | escape from the container and thci liquid permitted to condense. | When it hardened it was coal. Mr. Bergius described numerous tests that | he tried to find out whether it MISSING GIRL FOUND; IN DETENTION HOUSE| Daughter of Minister Will Be In-l stalled in Private School, " Father Reveals. Pending the completion of arrange- ments _to send her to a private scheol, old daughter of Rev. B. Franklin Bryan. pastor of | the Seventh-day Aventists’ Church, Ta- koma Park, will b2 held at the House | of Detention, it was revealed today by her father. student at Business High | ported Sunday as missing from her_home, at 254 Cerroll avenue, in this city dressed in male attire. Last night Policeman A. R. Hough THE EVENING SYNTHETIC COAL PRODUCED LOSE REVEALED To All Appearances ItIs Equal to Natural Chemist States. Lignin Tests Described. chemically exactly the same as nature's coal. He found that of the cellulose used all but one-half of 1 per cent was recovered—that is, that from 11 pounds of wood he had virtually 11 pounds ol coal. He calls it “end coal.” As a final test he subjected it to the latest modern process of liquefying coal, which Brothers Wednesday Special Sale Street $19.75 Smartest of frocks executed in stunning materials. THIRTEEN TWELWVE LANSBURGH & BRO Yith, Announcing a Radio f | is 8th and E Sts., STAR, WASHINGTON, is attracting the major-attention of the resent coal congress. He said it iquefied like real coal, producing the same unmistakable oils, acids and ketons, Lignin Coal Produced. Mr. Bergius described also the pro- | duction of artificial coal from lignin, which is a wood product akin to cellu- lose. Though this experiment suc- | ceeded, he said it had so far only been | made in a small way, owing to the diffi- culty of obtaining larger quantities of lignin sufficiently pure. < “The results of our investigations, | he said, “show again that the end coal resulting from cellulose is very closely related to natural-coal; that this end | coal is of an aromatic nature and that | it therefore is more than likely that a . considerable proportion of natural coal ived from cellulose.” He named Dr. Karl Schoenemann as | an_associate undertaking the cellulose | and the lignin experiments. Frocks F Franklin 7400 D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928. IS your home prepared to greet Thanksgiving Guests? Will tired-looking draperies, unsmiling floors, shabby linens, dull glassware and china greet their eyes? 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